Automatic sole-machine



E. E. WINKLEY.

AUTOMATIC SOLE MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED mm 20. 1915.

Patented July 5, 1921.

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AUTOMATIC SOLE MACHINE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT-OFFICE.

ERASTUS WINKLEY, 'OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN-MENTS, TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION, OF PATERSON, NEW JER- SEY,A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

AUTOMATIC SOLE-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 5, 1921.

T 0 all to ham it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERASTUS E. VVINKLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lynn, in thecounty of Essex and State of lvlassachusetts,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in AutomaticSole-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art towhich it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to machines in which blanks, particularly thoseemployed in the manufacture of shoe-soles, are operated upon. The objectof the invention, generally stated, is to provide automatic means forhandling the blanks for the purpose of supplying themsuccessively to theoperating-means, and removing them successively therefrom, and also forthe purpose of guiding and controlling both the blank and theoperating-means during the operation on the blank.

Theinvention, in certain aspects is susceptible of embodiment inmachines of various types, for performing various operations, but inother aspects it is peculiarlyapplicable to machines for performing aprogressive operation upon the marginal portion of a sole-blank or otherblank of irregular outline. In this aspect an object of the invention isto produce improved means for controlling automatically the variousfunctions of the machine in accordance with the attainment, by theblank, of different positions in the course of the operation thereon.

Other objects of the invention, and the various features of constructionand arrangement by which they are attained, will be set forthhereinafter. in connection with the description of the preferredembodiment of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a side-elevation of anautomatic insole channeling and slitting machine embodying the presentinvention; Fig. 2 is a plan-view of the machine. with the exception ofthe rearmost portion, on a larger scale than Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is aplan-view of the rear portion of the machine, on a larger scale than thepreceding figures; Fig. 4; is a front-elevation of the rear portion ofthe machine, with the blank-supplying mechanism removed;

Fig. 5 is a side-elevation of the rear portion of the machine, with theparts broken away and in vertical section; Fig. 6 is a plan-view, insection on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1; Fig. 7 is a plan-view in section onthe line 7-7 in Fig. i; Fig. .8 is a plan-view of an insole in itscondition after the operation of the present machine; Fig. 9 is afront-elevation, partly in section, showing in detail the engagement,with the insole-blank, of the feedrollers and the channeling-knife andslittingknife; Fig. 10 is a side-elevation, partly in section on theline 10-10 in Fig. 3; Fig. 11 is a side-elevation, partly in section onthe line 1111 in Fig. 4;, showing-particularly the automatic mechanismcontrolled by the end-feeler; Fig. 12 is a vertical sectionalview, onthe line 12'12 in Fig. 4. showing details of the means for supportingand actuating the end-feeler; Fig. 13 is a view similar to Fig. 11,showing some of the parts in different relation; Fig. 14 is asideelevation, partly in vertical section. showing parts of themechanism shown in Fig. 11, but on a larger scale than said figure; Fig.15 is a section on the line 1515 in Fig. 3, but ina different positionthan the latter figure; Fig. 16 is a section on the line 16-16 in Fig.3, but on a larger scale; Fig. 17 is a sectionon the line 17-17 in Fig.3; Figs. 18 and 19 are detail-views of one of the blank-pickers, invertical median section. in two diiferent operative positions; F 20 is asection on the line 20-20 in Fig. 19; F 21 is a detail plan-view showingthe picker of Fig. 18, together with a part of the actuating mechanismtherefor; Fig. 22 is a plan-view, partly in horizontal section, of oneof the stack-holders; Fig. 23 is a sideelevation of the stack-holders,partly in section on the line 23-23 in Fig. 22; Fig, 24 is aside-elevation, partly in vertical section on the line 2 l24; in Fig. 6;Fig. 25 is fragmentary elevation of parts of the blankreceiving andstacking mechanism, partly in section on the line 2525 in Fig. 2, but ona larger scale than the latter figure; Fig. 26 is a detail plan-view ofpart of the mechanism shown inFig. 25; Fig. 27 is a detailview, in plan,of part of the cam-mechanism of the machine; Fig. 28 is a detailelevation, partly in section on the line 2828 in Fig. 6, but on a largerscale than the latter figure, showing the locking-device for the",stack-elevating mechanism; Flg. 29 1s a hor1- zontal section on the line29-29 in Fig. 28,; Fig. 30 is a horizontal section on the line 30-30 inFig. 28; Fig. 31 is a detail'elevation, partly in section on the line31*31 in Fig. 2, showing details of the blank-feeding mechanism; Fig. 32is a detail elevation, partly in section on the line 32-32 in Fig. 6,but on a largerscale than the latter figure, illustrating the mechanismfor rotating and locking the turntable; Fig. 33 is a detail elevation,partly in section on the line 3333 in Fig. 31; Fig. "34 is a verticalaxial section, showing particularly the main camshaft and the cams andclutches mounted thereon; Fig. 35 is a diagrammatic planview showingvarious positions assumed by an insole-blank, duringthe operation of themachine thereon, with relation tothe edgegage and the edge-feeler; andFig. 36 is a view similar to that in Fig. 35, but showing aninsole-blankof a larger size.

; The invention is illustrated as embodied in a machine having achanneling-knife and a slitting-knife which act upon the-marginalportion of an insole-blank so as to produce the usual channel, lip andfeather. The knives are normally stationary so that they operate withwhat is commonly known as a dragcut, andv the blank is fed past theknives by means of upper and lower feedrollers 40 and 42 (Figs. 9 and10), of which the knurled peripheriesbear against the upper andlowersurfaces of that portion of the blank which is commonly described as thebetween-substance, namely the portion lying between the bottoms of thechannel and the slit. The channeling-knife a l and the slitting-knife 46have operative extremities of the usual form, and the points of theiroperation upon the blank are determined, with relation to the distancefrom the edge of the'blank, by the relative positions of the knives andof an edge-gage 48 (Figs. 10 and 35), against which the edge of theblank is constantly pressed as the result of the conjoint action of thefeed-mechanism and of the blank-swinging mechanism hereinafterdescribed. The edge-gage is mounted .in a stationary position on theframe of the machine.

111 Letters Patent of the United States No. 1,152,584 granted to thepresent applicant September 7, 1915, an automatic machine for operatingupon insoles is described in which, as in the present machine, theinsole is not only fed past the operating instrumentalities, but is alsoturned or swung, in its plane, to conform the direction of feed to thecurvature of the edge of the insole, by the automatic mechanism of'themachine.

In said machine the turning movement of machine the blank is swung byautomatic mechanism operating in the same general manner, but in thispresent mechanism the feeding function is divorced entirely from theblank-swinging mechanism, and the latter mechanism is somewhatdifferentin form from that of the machine in said patent. In

the present machine the blank is swung by means of two clamp-members 50and 52 (Figs. 4, 7 and 10) which grip'the blankbetween them, at a pointwithin or in front of the pointof operation of. the knives and thefeed-rollers with the blank, and which are arranged to swing, while sogripping the blank in one direction or the other about a vertical axiswhich is approximately coincident with the said point of operation. I

To permit the movement just described the upper clamp-member is fixed onthe lower endof arock-shaft 54, which turns in a bearing-sleeve 56 fixedon the frame of the machine, The lower clampsmember 52 is fixed on theupper end of a rod 58 (Figs. 1 and 5), which is arranged to turn andalso to slide in a bearing 60 on the frame of the machine. 7 V '7 Theengagement of the clamping-members with the blank is intermittent, andalternates with the intermittent rotation of the feed-rollers. Theclamping-members engage the blank under the spring -pressure, a spring62 being coiled around the rod 58 and tending to press the-clamp-member52 into engagement with the blank. The operative surfaces of theclamp-members are serrated, as shown in Fig. 4, to permit them to holdthe blank with sufficient security without the use of excessive pressureagainst'the blank. In order to release the blank from the action of theclamp-members, cam-mechanism is provided for intermittently drawingdownwardly the rod 58 and the clamp-j aw 52. A collar 6 1 is fixed tothe lower end of the rod, and this collar is engaged by an arm 66(Fig. 1) fixed on the forward end of the rock-shaft 68 which has abearing on the frame of the machine. A cam-lever 70 projects from therear end of the rook-shaft, and carries a roller 72 which engages a pathin a cam 74. By means hereinafter described this cam is rotatedconstantly during the operation of the machine, so as tocause the blankto be clamped and unclamped at regular brief intervals. o

lVhile the clamp engages a blank, as just described, it may eitherremain stationary or be swung more or less to one side or the other,according to whether the edge of the blank, adjacent the point ofoperation of the knives, is or is not, at the moment, in the properangularrelation to the direction of

